Football: Team-Mates in Rush to Defend Sent-Off Heskey ; Barclays Premiership

Birmingham Post › February 06, 2006

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Mario Melchiot and Matthew Upson leapt to the defence of Emile Heskey after the striker became Birmingham's seventh red-card statistic of the campaign.

The club record signing was controversially dismissed for two bookable offences by referee Mike Riley and was restrained by manager Steve Bruce and other staff members as he vented his spleen.

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Football: Team-Mates in Rush to Defend Sent-Off Heskey ; Barclays Premiership

Heskey was still visibly bristling as left the stadium and wisely chose not to comment, for fear of landing himself in further hot wat...

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